SATTER, DAVID

Age of Delirium the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0300087055. Card covers show light shelf wear, light crease runs down the middle of the front cover. ; A bright, solid book.; 6 X 1.11 X 9.1 inches; 424 pages; "The first state in history to be based explicitly on atheism, the Soviet Union endowed itself with the attributes of God. In this book, David Satter shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and the tragic human cost of the Soviet attempt to remake reality by force.". Very Good .

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Book number: 21045

Catalogue: History::Russia::Communism

Keywords: 0300087055 RUSSIA Communism Soviet Union USSR RUSSIA HISTORY

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Moscow: USSR, 1962. First English Edition. Hardcover. Wear to the extremities of the paper covered boards and cloth spine, some scuffing, discard stamp front and back end papers. ; A tight solid book. Liberally illustrated with 150 B&W and colorised photos, maps. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 155 pages; This book is an book of praise for the co-operative system in Russia in mid century put out by the government of the time. It describes the structure of the system, how it is "broken up into 17,500 consumers' societies which are associated into 2780 district unions, into 158 regional, territorial and republican unions into the USSR Central Union of Consumers' Societies (Centrosoyus), the latter is composed of unions of consumers' societies of the 15 Union Republics." Text is in Russian, English, French and Italian.. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 16577

Catalogue: History::Russia::Communism

Keywords: RUSSIA moscow CO-OPERATIVEs USSR RUSSIA HISTORY